Same here, i have randomly server hangs on some of my servers.

2011/8/15 E. Olsen <[email protected]>

> Yep...that sounds like the exact same behavior I'm seeing on Windows 2008
> R2 servers.
>
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> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Saint K. <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> I've pulled my servers off auto restart and noticed most of them when they
>> crash, they simple freeze up right after mapchange while clients are joining
>> the game and selecting their teams.
>>
>> This is on Linux servers however, but we both seem to suffer the same bug.
>>
>> Saint K.
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>> Subject: Re: [hlds] Server crashes (E. Olsen)
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>> Yeah...this is going to be a tough one to track down. I've been on a
>> server a couple of times that it's happened, and there was no discernible
>> cause, other than it seemed to happen most often right after a map change
>> while players were choosing their teams. But again, there was no crash dump,
>> and no error messages in the logs, so it's all but impossible to put my
>> finger on the cause. It's happened on both 24 & 32 player servers, stock and
>> custom maps, with Sourcemod and without, etc. Server specs are:
>>
>> 2 x e5620 (dual quad core)
>> 24 GB ram
>> 2 x 500GB drives (both defragged daily)
>> 5 TF2 instances per box (and nothing else at the moment - servers stay at
>> 35% CPU usage or less)
>>
>> It's more an annoyance than anything else....the servers are all very
>> stable (actually, they've been more stable in the last couple of months than
>> ever before), and almost never crash, with exception of this "hang" once or
>> twice per day. Some server will go for days without it occurring, then
>> they'll have 1-2 hangs on the same day.
>>
>> Perhaps if there was some kind of verbose logging/debug file we could put
>> on the server(s) for a couple of weeks that would detail exactly what was
>> happening during each hang, we could be a bit more helpful to Valve in
>> finding the problem?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Hutch <[email protected]<mailto:
>> [email protected]>> wrote:
>> Breaking your mail to the list out Olsen because this in particular caught
>> my interest.
>>
>> E. Olsen" <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>" Wrote:
>> "I'm seeing intermittent server hangs on our Windows Server 2008 R2
>> servers.
>> No crash, no crash dump, the server just hangs and needs a manual
>> restart..."
>>
>> Ditto, same OS have been seeing this for about 2 months now. Server
>> instance just freezes and required manual restart. I started eliminating
>> plugins and double checking SM, using latest stable, about to try latest
>> snapshot though I tend to prefer to not use snapshots. Did fresh server
>> installs as well just to cut any junk files that may have been left behind
>> that are no longer valid for the servers that could cause conflict. Nothing
>> has been revealed. Most times, again the instance just freezes. Occasionally
>> it will outright close and rarely do I get an error. Rarely I am blessed
>> with a dump. Seems to happen every 6 to 12 hrs on servers that have decent
>> traffic.
>> Looking at the dumps doesn't speak to me much.  I have seen server.dll
>> error if I am not mistaking. Hardware has been thoroughly tested and
>> retested and all appears well on that end.
>>
>> Dunno, but then I am not proficient with the dump files. My wife gripes at
>> me cause I can't find the mustard right there in the fridge. Apparently you
>> have to move stuff out of the way when looking for it.
>> Hutch
>>
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